Oz: Romance in Rags

In the mid-1990s, Caliber Press published this three-issue miniseries, a dreamlike reimagining of L. Frank Baum's Oz through a gritty, adult lens. Writers Ralph Griffith and Stuart Kerr, alongside artists Bill Bryan and Tim Holtrop, crafted a world where familiar characters are stripped of their whimsy, navigating a decaying, poverty-stricken landscape. This series stands out as a dark, literary deconstruction of the classic fantasy, offering a starkly original take that resonated with the alternative-comics sensibilities of its era.